[The link leads to a review of The Very Best of F&SF: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, which includes the following characterization of one of my stories:

"Mother Grasshopper" by Michael
Swanwick (1998). Pure Swanwickian whatthefuckery, a Malthusian fable of immortality
set inside the eye of a grasshopper as big as several planets put together. It
doesn't come together exactly right, the way my favorite Swanwick stories do;
there's no emotional punch hidden behind the conceptual mastery. Terrific all
the same.]

Gordon,

You were right.

Michael

As reviews go, "Pure Swanwickian whatthefuckery" is hard to
beat.

Gordon

I expect to see it in the story notes next time I sell something to you.

Michael

You mean you're not going to use it as the new title for your blog?

----Gordon

Above: Photo copyright by Ellen Datlow and used with her permission. Gordon Van Gelder's emails are quoted with his permission. Thanks, Ellen! Thanks, David!

[1] PSW for short on the blog masthead, since Pure Swanwickian Whatthefuckery is NSFW.

[2] In general, that reviewer on his blog is not bad at all, with a lot of concise apercus there starting with ....

"Of Time and Third Avenue" by Alfred Bester (1951).

'Mid-century time travel stories have a certain rigid, sonnet-like formality, presenting a neat paradox or a neat way out of paradox or a small neat logic puzzle, with little ornamentation beyond a tendency toward comic peculiarities in the men visiting from the future. This structure is not without its charms, but my own future-dulled senses find such stories less than satisfying....'

That's pretty much right.

Although I don't know where, say, Charles Harness's THE PARADOX MEN/FLIGHT INTO YESTERDAY (or his primary influence, Van Vogt) fits in on that spectrum. Maybe the long-form Spencer's FAIRY QUEEN of mid-20th century time-travel stories